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Docufiction considering the lives of mothers in Odessa women's prison.
Melodramatic look at love and friendship.
A girl celebrating her ninth birthday notices that her mother is beginning to change in a disturbing way.
An ageing fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.
A young woman tries to work out how to live after emerging from a childhood scarred by brutal violence.
A semi- autobiographical tale in which a young man explores all the things he hates about his mother.
Leonor wants to leave home, but she doesn’t dare to tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her to leave but is unable to keep her by her side either. Mother and daughter will have to face this new stage in life in which the world they share starts to fall apart.
Semi-autobiographical reflections based on Němec’s imaginary dialogue with his mother and inspired by Kafka’s A Letter to his Father.
A mother secretly videotapes her son because she's worried that he may be a psychopath.
A mother tries to prove her son's innocence.
Six year old Iván is supposed to be on holiday with his father but calls his mother to say that he's alone on a beach and the phone he's using is running out of power.
In Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland.
Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
In 2020, Belarus’s military practice of violent bullying conscripts as a means of control becomes a flash point for a growingly dissatisfied populace.
A lonely private detective with Tourette's attempts to solve his friend's murder.
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
A documentary profile of a refuge for women who fall pregnant out of wedlock in Morocco.
Brothers fleeing a bank robbery invade a yuppie housewarming party at their mother's recently foreclosed home and sadistically attack the guests, but when mother arrives, events take a still nastier turn.
During massive 1996 Rio storm, firefighter Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a collapsing nursing home, but the mysterious residents have other sinister plans.
Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
When an elderly matriarch decides to bequeath the family home to a charlatan's cult, resentments among her family come to the fore.
Tale of three women and maternal love.
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Krisha is the daughter of the Yates who are the nomad tribe of the tundra. To save her sick mother, she follows the words of Shaman and takes off on her adventure to the end of Northern land to find the red bear she saw in her dreams.
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
An animated film about a midwife who helps to bring lots of babies into the world.
A love letter to the mosaic of queer lives in Saigon, a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Issachar & Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it – or she will kick them out.
1975, Rosenkreuz Manor. Sigrun Fink, desperate for information about her biological family, starts a new position as nurse to the aging, ill and eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. For a shared longing binds them together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun's true identity; the nurse’s lifeforce holds the key to the future for the Baroness.
An Orthodox nun in a Belarussian convent considers her past and her future.
A teenager gets an introduction to hedonistic sex, courtesy of his amoral mother.
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
A suburban housewife comes to London and discovers that grief has unexpected benefits.
A harrassed mum tries to prepare for her daughter's birthday.
Families fall apart and hang together in a Mother's Day preamble.
Magic musical realism celebrates a starving family in Zimbabwe.
A young man's wedding day brings to a head the feelings he and his brother have about their abusive mother.
An examation of the "slow food" movement and the rise of organic farming.
Desperate not to disappoint his mother, an introverted boy gets into increasingly difficult situations.
Visually vibrant comedy about the life and love of a transsexual.
A husband and wife find their marraige threatened by an inability to conceive.
A witch wreaks death and destruction in the final part of the Three Mothers trilogy.
Tragicomedy, a filmmaker tries to cope with crises.
An exploration of the relationship between Islamic-convert Yvonne Ridley and her mum. Showing at EIFF 2007 in Bridging The Gap and Scottish Documentary Shorts Awards.
Five Indian doctors working in the US discuss their experiences with Covid-19.
Two women, a generation apart, find themselves inextricably linked by their brief time together in a maternity ward, bound by a secret with ties to a deep trauma in Spanish history.
When the daughter of a maid arrives to visit her mother at her employers after a 13-year separation, the scene is set for fireworks.
A filmic response to the still photograph archive of Stanley Kubrick.
Hard working widow, Leila, is tirelessly trying to provide for her infant daughter and 12 year-old-son, Amir. A marriage proposal from kind hearted Kazem could be the solution to all of her financial troubles. Unfortunately, as Kazem has a young daughter of his own, tradition dicates that Amir will be unable to live with them.
A story about a black family in a violent city
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says.
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns, Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
A dark time Kim Sung Soo on capturing history and getting a shot at an Oscar with 12.12: The Day
Reflections of a cat Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
Man about town Gay Talese on Watching Frank, Frank Sinatra, and his latest book, A Town Without Time
Magnificent creatures Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
A unified vision DOC NYC highlights and cinematographer Michael Crommett on Dan Winters: Life Is Once. Forever.
Poetry and loss Géza Röhrig on Terrence Malick, Josh Safdie, and Richard Kroehling’s After: Poetry Destroys Silence
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